42. Not allowed to attempt to appeal to mankind’s baser instincts in recruitment posters.

43. Camouflage body paint is not a uniform.

44. I am not the atheist chaplain.

45. I am not allowed to ‚Go to Bragg boulevard and shake daddies little money maker for twenties stuffed into my undies‘.

46. I am not authorized to fire officers.

47. I am not a citizen of Texas, and those other, forty-nine, lesser states.

48. I may not use public masturbation as a tool to demonstrate a flaw in a command decision.

49. Not allowed to trade military equipment for ‚magic beans‘.

50. Not allowed to sell magic beans during duty hours.

51. Not allowed to quote ‚Dr Seuss‘ on military operations.

52. Not allowed to yell ‚Take that Cobra‘ at the rifle range.

53. Not allowed to quote ‚Full Metal Jacket ‚ at the rifle range.

54. ‚Napalm sticks to kids‘ is *not* a motivational phrase.

55. An order to ‚Put Kiwi on my boots‘ does *not* involve fruit.

56. An order to ‚Make my Boots black and shiny‘ does not involve electrical tape.

57. The proper response to a lawful order is not ‚Why?‘

58. The following words and phrases may not be used in a cadence — Budding sexuality, necrophilia, I hate everyone in this formation and wish they were dead, sexual lubrication, black earth mother, all Marines are latent homosexuals, Tantric yoga, Gotterdammerung, Korean hooker, Eskimo Nell, we’ve all got jackboots now, slut puppy, or any references to squid.

59. May not make posters depicting the leadership failings of my chain of command.

60. ‚The Giant Space Ants‘ are not at the top of my chain of command.

61. If one soldier has a 2nd Lt bar on his uniform, and I have an E-4 on mine It means he outranks me. It does not mean ‚I have been promoted three more times than you‘.

62. It is better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, no longer applies to Specialist Schwarz.

207. The Chicken and Rice MRE is *not* a personal lubricant. (Skippy wanted this noted for the record that this is not something he has ever attempted or considered! It was something we heard at dinner on 22 September 2001 and it was just so obscene it had to go here.)

208. Not allowed to play into the deluded fantasies of the civlians who are „hearing conversations“ from the NSA, FBI, CIA and KGB due to the microchip the aliens implanted in their brain.

209. An airsickness bag is to be used for airsickness *only*. (Also not a Skippy-ism…this was the same dinner.)

210. Must not make T-shirts up depicting a pig with the writing „Eat Pork or Die“ in Arabic to bring as civilian attire when preparing to deploy to a primarily Muslim country.

211. Don’t ask LTC Steele to sign my copy of Blackhawk Down.

212. Must not go on nine deployments in six years that require a security clearance that I don’t have, even if the Army tells me repeatedly that I have one and I have no reason to question them.

213. Do not convince NCO’s that their razorbumps are the result of microscopic parasites.